River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-03-10
NEWS AND NOTES.
New York City has so, 1000 landlords,


who collect $40, 900, 900 rent.
Bernhardt gave ten performances in
the City of Mexico, and it is claimed
that the receipts were $47 900.
Vito Cereolone, who died recently at
Milan, has left by his will his entire
fortune, amounting to 100000. to
King Humbert.
Senator Hugh Nelson has been
appointed Governor of British Column
bia, to succeed Gov. Cornwall. whose
term has expired.
Senator Ingalls,. when he delivers his
satirieal and striking speeches. never
raises his voice above monotone and
rarely gesticulates.
The Russian Government is experi-
menting with a new explosive which
possesses fifteen times greater destruc-
tive power than gun-powder-
The late earthquake was felt in
several places in Austria and Bulgaria
SIX severe shocks were experienced at
Shumla the morning of Feb. 20.
The Calhoun monument will be for
mally unveiled April 20 at Charleston,
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casion be made great State event.
Herr Sailmaker is one ofthe German
candidates for the Reichstag who will
have to 90 through a second election.
He ought &c make a good canvass.
Nine Kuki, the wife of the japanese
Minister at Washington, speaks the
prettieSt sort of crazy-quilt English, and
is very proud of the accomplishment.
A Frenchman has lately estimated
that in life of fifty years imam sleeps
away 5000 days, walks 800 days. and
feeds and fuses the rest of the time.
When the Prince and Princess of
Wales are at comedy play together
he never laughs heartily at a joke until
he has turned to see if she enjoys il too.
NUM- acsy's portrait of President Nc
Gosh of Princeton College will hang in
the club room beside those of President
Woolsey of Yale and President Hopkins
of Williams.
Judge Samuel Treat. who has tender
ed his resignation as Judge Of the East
ern District of Missouri. was appointed
by President Fierce and has served
thirty years.
A statue of Burns is to be placed in
Washington Park, Albany, in accord
ance with the will of the late Mary Nc
Pherson. who left $4,000 for the pur
pose last year.
/ Mr.. J. p. Chew. editor of the Xenia Ga
zette. announces himself as a candidate
for the Ohio Senate. but his opponents
are confident that ht has bitten off more
than he can chew.
President McCoSh of Princeton and
Drs. Talmage, Storrs. and Hodge are
to address, with other speakers, an
about March 20.
George Mann of Louisville is soon to
be tried for stabbing his young and de-
voted wife to death Sentimental young
ladies are reminded that his favorite
flowers are japonicas.
The mail steamship Valparaiso. from
Liverpool for Valparaiso, was wrecked
off Vigo. Spain. The vessel had on
board 200 passengers. all of whom were.
with the mails, saved.
Morris Shetland of Gait. Canada,
bought wild goose of Mr. Harris, who
lad caught it eighteen years before.
1t has recently died. There is an un-
certainty about its age, as no one could
tell how old it was when caught forty
eight years ago.
Capt. John Patten, of Bath. Me. is
dead at the age of 81. He was a MEM
Der of the first City Council of that
place. was captured and imprisoned by
the English during the War of 1912.
and died worth $500, 600. which he had
made in the possession Of ships.
Senator Stanford manages the Cen
trail Pacific by receiving every day in
Washington a telegraph report half
column or more in Length from his re-
representatives. in California. Every
evening he sends off a telegram equally
minute giving his directions in detail.
A portrait of Washington which
hung on the wall of the House of Rep
resentatives in the State House at Col
umbia, S. c., when the town was
burned was cut from its frame by a
member of Sherman's staff, and was
the only picture saved. 1t is under
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the State.
Mr.. and Mrs Gladstone visit TO
Cambridge has been the absorbing
topic of the dOns during the last few
weeks. The Master of Selwyn and Mrs.
Lyttleton did their utmost to entertain
their distinguished visitors A posse of
faii Newnhamites formed themselves
into a volunteer escort, and the Grand
Old Mans inspection of their college
eliminated in a photograph, in the
planting of memorial plane-Tee, and
in presentation of lilies.
Miss MaudB anks. daughter of Gen.
n. p, is now regularly on the stage.
She is playing Parthemia in Ingomar"
this week in the small towns of PEN
nsylvania. The General who is now II
years of age, still holds the office of
United States Marshal in Boston and
runs an experimental farm of sixty acres
just outside the city. Miss Maud is
pronounced brunei, and she wears her
hair after Mrs. Cleveland,s style. She
claims to be delighted with her profess
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